{"id":694450,"date":"2026-07-16T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:13:10","slug":"birmingham-dad-saves-daughters-life-by-donating-part-of-his-liver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694450\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Dad saves daughter&#8217;s life by donating part of his liver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily, 31, said: &#8220;I just kept myself busy, I went for a big walk around Birmingham and kept checking in, always waiting in suspense to hear when Rory was out and then when Harriet was out. Harriet wasn&#8217;t out of theatre until 9 o&#8217;clock that evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory said: &#8220;[Recovery] was a lot slower road for her. I seemed to repair quite quickly and she didn&#8217;t. I&#8217;d rather it had been the other way round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But she&#8217;s doing amazingly now. They told us that once she&#8217;d got the new liver she&#8217;ll bounce back and she has, definitely, she&#8217;s grown and she&#8217;s putting on weight. You can&#8217;t put enough food in front of her because she just wants to eat and eat and eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily said her daughter had &#8220;made lots of progress since being home and she&#8217;s the same Harriet, if not better than before, because she&#8217;s got a functioning liver&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily, 31, said: &#8220;I just kept myself busy, I went for a big walk around Birmingham and kept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}